Articles, Leading Stories
Online tool helps dieters lose weight
By Susan Gonsalves
A Web-based commercial weight loss program that pairs financial incentives with social influence has shown positive results, according to a recent study conducted by Miriam...
Research looks at benefits of online game
By Susan Gonsalves
Age has an impact on the benefits people think they derive from playing the popular online game Bejeweled Blitz.
Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D., a professor of psychology...
New Riverview leader hopes to bring new direction
By Catherine Robertson Souter
After a tumultuous few months, the mental health system in Maine will have new life breathed into it in the person of Robert Jay Harper, a former patient advocate with the...
Extreme weight loss: media’s misplaced message
By Phyllis Hanlon
Thin is in. Or so various media sources would have the general public believe. Magazines, newspapers and now reality shows are promoting the message that excessive dieting and...
Privileges quest fizzles
By Catherine Robertson Souter
At a time when mental health care and health insurance have taken center stage in the American dialogue, it can be shocking to find that patients may find basic access to...
Consumer protection bill filed to restrict use of ‘psychotherapist’
By Pamela Berard
Proposed Massachusetts legislation would restrict use of the terms “psychotherapist” or “psychotherapy” to only those professionals licensed with “psychotherapy”...
Bill to expand veterans’ court is revised
By Rivkela Brodsky
A $1.16 million proposal to expand Maine’s veterans’ court statewide has been revised to a $40,000 plan to cover a grant expiring at the end of June, says Rep. Lori Fowle...
Study reports adolescent psychotropic drug use
By Rivkela Brodsky
About six percent of teens use psychotropic drugs, mostly antidepressants and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder medications, according to a recent study by the Centers...
Stress in America 2013 focuses on teens
By Phyllis Hanlon
The American Psychological Association recently released the results of Stress in America™ 2013, which for the first time focused on teens. The survey “portrays a picture...
Study: Online tool effective
By Susan Gonsalves
Researchers at Yale University have developed a program to teach coping skills to alcohol and substance abuse patients. Lead author Kathleen Carroll, Ph.D., professor of...